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Is It Alright If I Drop Her Off At Your Place?

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"Is it okay if I drop her off at your place?" Elena had begged me earlier. I 'd told her yes, mainly in a rush to get off of the phone since I was in the midst of my work day. Now that I 'm driving home, I 'm worried about Erin. I hope she 's been okay alone at my apartment all day. Dang it, I knew I should 've left work early to stay home with her.

Elena 's words from our previous phone conversation run through my mind. "Please Austin, she 's contaminating our dorm and I have finals next week, I can 't afford to get sick right now. Besides, she 's your girlfriend and I 'm not cut out for this nurturing bull-crap."

Suddenly, I decide to veer into the right turning lane that merges into the Publix parking lot. I may not be a doctor, but …show more content…

Elena didn 't exactly tell me Erin 's diagnosis on the phone. Absentmindedly, I grab a bubble gum flavored cold and flu box, along with a bottle of Pepto-Bismol, and also some allergy medicine. Whatever she has, this oughta do it.

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Erin 's sprawled out on my couch, beads of sweat are formed on her skin and her dark locks are matted to her forehead. I 've turned the fan on high and adjusted the air conditioning three times. The thermostat currently says its seventy degrees throughout my apartment, yet Erin 's still warmer than a furnace. I 'm tempted to drop the temperate until it 's snowing inside, and bundle myself up, strictly for her well-being.

Hesitation is evident in my hands as I try to pour some of the pink, gooey, liquid medicine into the tiny measuring cup since the dosage is based on weight. Without thinking I tap on her shoulder. She needs medicine and if she doesn 't drink this now I 'll go insane watching her writhe on my sofa. "Erin..." I whisper loudly.

Her weak eyelids flutter apart and she struggles to look up at me. Guilt washes over me for waking her as her weak lips pull up in a fragile smile. She greets me and I kneel down beside the couch.

"How much do you weigh?"

Erin 's eyeing the medicine in my hands now. "What are you talking about?"

"Would you say you 're in the seventy to one hundred pound range?" I press. She 's still looking at me funny and I explain to her that the medicine dosage depends on weight.

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